Bem Viver: the inspiring role of young people
Rios de Encontro (Rivers of Meeting), is an eco-cultural and socio-educational project based in the community of Cabelo Seco, Pará, Brazil. The project spent...
A repudiation of all who preach human rights violations
Bernardo Kucinski is a highly respected Brazilian journalist and writer. After decades in journalism, he recently turned to literature, writing, among other works, a...
Amid the furore of Brazil’s 2018 elections: listening for the quiet...
One afternoon in October 2013, I arrived for an appointment at a public building in a small town in Brazil. Sitting opposite in the...
Amazon frontier: The Third Bank of the River
BOOK REVIEW
Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Third Bank of the River. New York: Picador 2018
This book has been classified as ‘travel-writing’, but it is much...
Brazil: the impact of hydroelectric dams
LAB correspondent Marilene Cardoso Riveiro has made a beautiful short video, entitled 'Costs', about the impact of hydroelectric dams in Brazil on the communities...
Haiti is no shithole
This post was published by Haiti Support Group. You can read the original here
12th January 2018: Today marks eight years after the Léogâne Earthquake...
On the Venezuelan border: all the arms of the press
This article was first published in Revista Opera. You can read the original, in Portuguese, here.
October 23, 2017: The day begins at 8...
Rio de Janeiro: This land is our land
What do you do if you’re living on public land, in a house that your great-grandparents built in an era before strict housing regulations,...
Frei Henri, champion of justice for Brazil’s rural poor
A chapter in international solidarity with Brazil’s embattled rural poor closed on Sunday 26 November with the death of Dominican priest and lawyer, Henri...
Belo Horizonte gets a Land Reform Farmers Market
Authorities, representatives of social and cultural movements, and an appreciative audience gathered in Belo Horizonte for the opening of the Farmers' Market Shop, another...